1.
Points A and B 1000 m apart are plotted
on a straight highway running East and
West. From A, the bearing of a tower C
is 32° W of N and from B the bearing of
C is 26° N of E. Approximate the
shortest distance of tower C to the
highway.
2. A man standing on a 48.5 meter
building high, has an eyesight height of
1.5 m from the top of the building, took
a depression reading from the top of
another nearby building and nearest
wall, which are 50° and 80°
respectively. Find the height of the
nearby building in meters. The man is
standing at the edge of the building and
both buildings lie on the same
horizontal plane.
3. The angle of elevation of the top of
tower B from the top of tower A is 28°
and the angle of elevation of the top of
3. tower A from the base of tower B is
46°, The two towers lie in the same
horizontal plane. If the height of tower
B is 120 m, find the height of tower A
4. The sides of a triangular lot are 130 m.,
180 m and 190 m. The lot is to be
divided by a line bisecting the longest
side and drawn from the opposite
vertex. Find the length of the line.
5. A pole cast a shadow 15 m long when
the angle of elevation of the sun is 61°.
If the pole is leaned 15° from the
vertical directly towards the sun,
determine the length of the pole.
6. The sides of a triangle are 8 cm, 10 cm
and 14 cm. Determine the radius of the
inscribed circle.
7. The point of concurrency of the angle
bisector of the triangle is called
8. For a triangle, the term "centroid"
refers to the point of intersection of the
9. A paper equilateral triangle ABC has
side length 12. The paper triangle is do
folded so that vertex A touches a point
on side BC a distance 9 from point B.
Find the length of the line segment
along which the triangle is folded.
10. A point P within an equilateral triangle
has distance of 4, 5 and 6 units
respectively from the vertices.
Determine the length of the sides of
the equilateral triangle.
11. Let a, b and c be the sides of a triangle
and A, B, C be the angles opposite
them. If a^2 + b^2 = 1989c^2, find cot
C/(cot A + cot ).
12. In triangle ABC, angles A and B
measure 60 degrees and 45 degrees,
respectively. The bisector of angle A
intersects line BC at T, and AT = 24. Find
the area of triangle ABC
13. Pegasus is tethered by a 20-foot silver
rope to the base of a cylindrical tower
whose radius is 8 feet. The rope is
attached to the tower at ground level
and to Pegasus at a height of 4 feet.
Pegasus has pulled the rope taut, the
end of the rope is 4 feet from the
nearest point on the tower. Find the
length of the rope that is touching the
tower.
14. . In triangle ABC, AB = 13, CB = 15 and
CA = 14. Point D is on BC with %3D CD =
6. Point E is on BC such that ∟BAE
=∟CAD Find BE.
15. If sin P 0.8142 and cos Q= 0.4432,
evaluate, correct to 3 decimal places
tan (P+ Q). ren of the
16. Point B is on AC with AB = 9 and BC 21.
Point D is not on AC so that AD = CD
and AD and BD are integers. Find the
sum of all possible perimeters of
triangle ACD.
17. The center of the inscribed circle is at
the point where the triangle intersect.
of the A. medians B. angle bisectors C.
perpendicular bisectors D. Altitudes
18. . The altitudes of the sides of the
triangle intersect at the point known as
A. orthocenter B. circumcenter incenter
C. D. centroid
19. The area of a triangle is 8346 sq. m and
two of its interior angles are 37°25' and
56°17'. What is the length of the
longest side?
20. Triangle ABC has right angle at B and
contains a point P for which PA = 10, PB
= 6 and ZAPB= ZBPC =ZCPA. Find PC.
21. Triangle ABC is divided into six smaller
triangles by lines drawn from the
vertices through a common interior
point as shown in the figure. The areas
of four of these triangles are as
indicated. Find the area of the triangle
ABC.
22. If an equilateral triangle is
circumscribed about a circle of radius
10 cm, determine the side of the
triangle.
23. The angle of elevation, 30 fl from a
tree, of the top of the three is three
times the angle of elevation at a point
150 ft from it. Find the height of the
tree.
24. The captain of a ship views the top of a
lighthouse at an angle of 60° with the
horizontal at an elevation of 6 meters
above sea level. Five minutes later, the
same captain of the ship views the top
of the same lighthouse at an angle of
30° with the horizontal. Determine the
speed of the ship if the lighthouse is
known to be 50 meters above sea level..
25. A tower and a monument stand on a
level plane. The angles of depression of
the top and bottom of the monument
viewed from the top of the tower at 13°
and 35° respectively. The height of the
tower is 50 m. Find the height of the
monument.
26. Angles are measured from the positive
horizontal axis, and the positive
direction is counterclockwise. What are
the values of sin B and cos B in the 4th
quadrant? A. sin B> 0 and cos B<0 sin
B<0 and cos B<0 sin B>0 and cos B > 0
D. sin B< 0 and cos B >0 B. C. 30. The
graph of the arccosine function is the
graph of the arcsine function.
27. A triangle has vertices P (-8, 5), Q = (-15,
-19) and R = (1, -7). The equation of the
bisector of angle P can be written in the
form of ax + 2y+c = 0. Find a + c
28. Triangle xyz has base angles X= 52° and
Z = 60°. Distance XZ= 400m long. A line
AB which is 200m long is laid out
parallel to XZ. Compute the area of
ABXZ.
29. The sides of a triangle are 8, 10 and 14.
Determine the radius of inscribe and
circumscribe circle.
30. The sides of a triangle are 8, 15 and 17
units. If each side is doubled, how many
square units will the area of the new
triangle be?
31. Triangle ABC is an isosceles with AC =
BC and ZACB =106°. Point M is in the
interior of the triangle so that ZMAC=
23°. Find the number of degress in
ZCMB.
32. The probabilities are 0.80, 0.70, and
0.65 that a family, randomly chosen as
part of a sample survey in a large city,
owns a flat screen television or a
computer or both. What is the
probability that a family in this area
own one or the other or both? A. 0.75
B. 0.55 C. 0.65 D. 0.85
33. On the East Coast, it is known from
health records that the probability of
selecting an adult over 40 years of age
with cancer is 0.05. The probability of
diagnosing a person with cancer aS
having the disease is 0.78 and the
probability of incorrectly diagnosing a
person Without cancer as having the
disease is 0.06. What is the probability
that a person diagnosed as having
cancer actually has the disease?
34. A box contains 5 defcctive and 195
non-defective cell phones. A quality
control engineer selects two cell phones
at random with replacement. What is
the probability that neithcr is defcctive?
35. A game is played as follows. You pay S1
to play. A coin is flipped four times. If
four tails or four heads are obtained,
you get your S1 back plus $5 more.
Otherwise you forfeit your $1. What is
the mathematical expectation?
36. An engineer selects a sample of 5
iPods from a shipment of 100 that
contains 5 defectives. Find the
probability that the sample contains at
least one defective.
37. A card is drawn from a deck of 52
playing cards. Find the probability of
drawing a king or a red card.
38. A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the
probability of getting 3 tails up? A. 1/8
B. 1/16 C. 1/4 D. 7/8 8.
39. A calibration study needs to be
conducted to see if 20 scales are
giving the same weights. How many
ways may be selected to perform a
preliminary study?
40. Industrial engineers are timing
workers to rank their speed at
assembling Conputers. There are 10
workers. How many dilferent
permulations are possible?
41. A machine has a probability of
producing a defective equal to 0.05
every Lime it produces a product.If
threc of its products are selected
randomly and independently during a
shift, what is the probability that a
quality cngincer will find no defectives
in the three?
42. There are 13 teams in a tournament.
Each team is to play with cach other
only once. What is the minimum
number of days can thcy all play
without any team playing more than
one game in any day?
43. In bow many ways can 4 boys and 4
girls be seated alternately in a row of 8
seats?
44. An urn contains 4 black balls and 6
white balls. What is the probability of
getting 1 black and 1 white ball in two
consecutive draws from the urn?
45. What is the number of permutations
of the letters in the word BANANA?
46. From a bag containing 4 black balls
and 5 white balls, two balls arc drawn
one at a time. Find thc probability that
one ball is white and one ball is black.
Assume that the first ball is returned
before the second ball is drawn.

47. What is the probability that at least
twe students ofa class of size 23 have
the same birthday?
48. Eleven poker chips are numbered
consecutively i througlı 10, with two of
them labeied with a 6 and placed in a
jar. A chip is drawn at random. Find
the odus of drawing a 6 from the jar
above.
49. A man tosses 1 five-peso coin, 2 one
peso coins, 3 twenty-five centavo
coins, 4 ten centavu coins among 10
boys. In how many dillcrent ways can
the boys profit if each is to get a coin?
50. In how many ways can we wite the
number 4 as the sum of 5 nonnegative
inlegers?
51. Sixty percent of the people who buy
sports cars are men. If 10 sports car
owners are randomly selected, find the
probability that exactly 7 are men.
52. Engr. Cober will roll a number cube,
labeled 1 through 6, a total of 200
times. About how many times could
Engr. Cober expect to roll a number
greater than 4?
53. A group of five people simultancously
enter an clevator at the ground floor.
There are 10 upper floors. The persons
choose their exit floors independently
of each other. Determine the
probability that they arc all going to
different floors when each person
randomly chooses one of the 10 floors
as the exit floor.
54. In how many ways can 6 people be
seated around a circular table?
55. What are the odds of randomly
selecting a dime from a dish
containing 11 pennies, 6 nickels, 5
dimes and 3 quarters?
56. One Orange Dormitory packed
breakfast for each of three
residents.Each breakfast should have
consisted of three types of rolls, one
each of nut, cheese, and fruit rolls.
Alma, the cafeteria în-charge wrapped
each of the nine rolls and once
wrapped, the rolis were
indistinguishable from one another.
She then randomly put three rolls in a
 bag for each of the residents. What is
the probability each resident got one
roll of each type?
57. A dice is rolled 9 times. Find the
probability of having a 4 upwards less
than 4 times.
58. What refers to the list of all possible
outcomes ofa probability experiment?
59. What is the sum of the probabilities of
all outcomcs in a probability
distribution?
60. The mean of the binomial distribution
can be calculated using what formula?
61. What distribution is used when the
variable occurs ovct time?
62. The standard deviation of a binomial
distribution can be calculated using
what formula?
63. Space is the set of all possible
outcomes of a probability experiment.
64. . The population of Nicosia (Cyprus) is
75 % Greek and 25% Turkish. 20% of
the Grecks and 10% of the Turks speak
English. If the pcrson the visitor met
speaks English, what is the probability
that the person is a Greek?
65. In a certain communication system, a
word consists of a sequence of 3
elements, where each element may
take the value of 1 or 2. If each wordAis
equally like to happen, the probability
that a word occurring with exactly two
elements of value 1 is
66. Find the probability of the event A^C U
B given that P(A): 1/3, P(B)= 1/4 and
P(AB) = 1/6.
67. Three newspapers A, B and C are
published in Cebu City. It is known that
for the adult population 20% read A,
16% read B and 14% read C, 8% read
both A and B, 5% read both A and C, 4%
read both B and C and 2% read all the
three. What is the probability that an
adult read A given that it is known that
he reads at least one paper?
68. A group of three people is selected at
random. What is the probability that at
least two of them have the same
birthday?
69. Find the number of ways 2 balls, 4 dolls
and 6 toy guns can be given to 12
children if each child gets a toy.
70. Find the coefficient of variation of the
sample: 53, 55, 70, 58, 64, 57, 53, 69,
57, 68, 53.
71. . If Marlon has 8 pairs of socks (4 white,
two black, one blue and one red), what
is the probability that he randomly
chooses two pairs of white socks to
wear on consecutive days.
72. . If the letters in the word POKER are
rearranged, what is the probability that
the word will begin with a K and ends
with an O?.
73. How many different signals, each
consisting of eight flags hung one above
the other, can be formed froma set of
three indistinguishable red flags, two
indistinguishable blue flags, two
indistinguishable white flags and one
black flag?
74. Let X be the number of cars per minute
passing a certain point of some road
between 8 AM and 10 AM on a Sunday.
Assume that X has a mean of 5, find the
probability of observing 3 or fewer cars
during any given minute.
75. Find the range of the sample: 53, 55,
70, 58, 64, 57, 53, 69, 57, 68, 53.
76. Three screws are drawn at random
from a lot of 100 screws, 10 of which
are defective. Find the probability that
the screws drawn will be non1-
defective in drawing without
replacement.
77. Given the numbers 2, 6, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3,
7, 2 and 2. The mode of the numbers is.
78. A trough, with an equilateral triangle
end sections, has sides equal to 30 cm
and 600 cm long. How many liters of
water is in the container if the depth of
water is one-half the depth of the
trough.
79. Find the volume (in cm^3) of a
spherical segment if the radius of the
sphere is 10 cm and altitude 8 cm.
80. The volume of water in a hemisplhere
having a radius of2 m is 2.05 m3. Find
the height of the water..
81. Find the arca (in cm ) ofa regular
octagon inscribed in a circle of radius 10
cm?
82. A rhombus has diagonals of 32 and 20
inches. Determine its area.

83. Find the difference of the area of the

square inscribed in a semi-circle having
a radius of 15 m. The base of the square
lies on the diameter of the semi-circle.
88. Find the angle in mils subtended by a
line 10 yards long at a distance of 5000
yards.

84. Two perpendicular chords both 5 cm

from the center of a circle divide the
circle into four parts. If the radius of the
circle is 13 cm, find the area of the
smaliest part.
89. 13. If the edge of a cube is increased by
30%, by how much is the surface area
increased?

90. A regular octahedron has an edge 2m.

Find its volume (in m^3).
85. A circle with radius 6 cm has half its
area removed by cutting off a border of
uniform width. Find the width of the
border.
91. Find the volume of a cone (in cm^3) to
be constructed from a sector having a
diameter of 72 cm and a central angle
86. The arc of a sector is 9 units and its
of 150.
radus is 3 units. What is the area of the
sector in square units?

92. Each side of a cube is increased by 1%.

By what percent is the volume of the
87. A swimming pool is constructed in the
cube increased?
shape of two partially overlapping
identical circles. Each of the circles has
a radius of 9 m and each circle passes
through the center of the other. Find
the arca of the swimming pool.
93. The central angle of a spherical wedge 98. A conical vessel has a height of 24 cm
is 1 radian. Find its volume if its radius is and a base diameter of 12 cm. It holds
1 unit. water to a depth of 18 cm above its
. vertex. Find the volume of its content.

94. The volume of the frustum of a regular

triangular pyramid is 135 cu. m. The
lower base is an equilateral triangle
with an edge of 9 m. The upper base is
8 m above the lower base. What is the
upper base edge in meters?
99. The ratio of the volume to the lateral
area of a right circular cone is 2:1. If the
altitude is 15 cm, what is the ratio of
the slant height to the radius?

100. Two vertical conical tanks are

95. The corners of a cubical block touched
joined at the vertices by a pipe. Initially
the closed spherical shell that encloses
the bigger tank is full of water. The pipe
it. The volume of the box is 2744 cubic
valve is open to allow the water to flow
cm. What volume in cubic centimeter
to tbe smaller tank until it is full. At this
inside the shell is not occupied by the
moment, how deep is the water in the
block?
bigger tank? The bigger tank has a
.
diameter of 6 ft and a height of 10 ft,
the smaller tank has a diameter of 6 ft
and a height of 8 feet. Neglect the
volume of water in the pipeline.
96. The volume of water in a spherical tank
having a diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m.
101. The distance between the
Determine the depth of the water in
centers of the three circles which are
the tank.
mutually tangent to each other
externally are 10, 12 and 14 units. The
area of the largest circle is.

97. A circular cylinder is circumscribed

about a right prism having a square
base one meter on an edge. The volume
of the cylinder is 6.283 cu.m. Find its
altitude in meters.
102. If the sides of a parallelogram
and an included angle are 6, 10 and
100°, respectively, find the length of the
shorter diagonal.